Alive: Eco-Faith and Farm/Community Garden Camp

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1 Alive: Eco-Faith and Farm/Community Garden Camp

2 Alive: Eco-Faith and Farm/Garden Camp Alive: Eco-Faith and Farm/Garden Camp engages campers ages 6 years to 12 years in connecting farm-based learning experiences with Christian faith to feel fully alive in the deep Christian tradition of relationship and love of self, community, Earth, place, and God! Themes of soil science, watersheds, eco-systems, botany, local food systems, and healthy eating are woven together with biblical teachings and reflection. The campers experience the farm/garden eco-system and local food system as a mirror to the scriptural teaching of relationship, abundance, and God s love for us. Throughout their week on the farm students grow in relationship to soil, water, plants, nourishing food, and each other. Campers have daily opportunities to reflect on how to continue these relationships into their families and communities with life-giving action steps to create healthier individual, family, and community lives. These deep relationships, reflections, and changes nurture students so that each can feel fully alive within themselves, their place, their families, their communities, and their Christian faith. Educational Philosophy and Approach Using our farm and our partner site, Community Roots Garden, as an outdoor chapel and gathering space allows nature to take the spiritual and educational lead. Our time together is responsive and dynamic, adapting to the evolving conditions on the farm and in the community garden. We let the plants and animals on the farm teach and speak to us. If a hawk flies over the farm/garden or bees swarm we stop to observe and discuss the animal s behavior and how it is a part of our farm/garden community, ecosystem and God s creation. Since we are gathering in community on a living, working farm/garden we create space to listen, explore and wonder. About The Abundant Table The Abundant Table provides faith-rooted, land-based and farm-to-school experiential learning opportunities for school-aged children, youth, young adults and communities. We create greater access to sustainably grown foods for the benefit of Ventura County school children and families, produced from a consciousness of ecological, social and spiritual well-being. We provide thousands of pounds of produce each week to students in Ventura County public schools though our farm to school program and to community members through our Community Supported Agriculture program; all from our 5-acre organic farm in Camarillo. Our mission seeks to change lives and systems by creating sustainable relationships to the land and local community.

3 The Abundant Table, offers innovative, farm-based educational programs for public schools and school-aged children to promote healthy eating, good nutrition and a greater connection to our diverse agricultural community, as well as youth development and leadership opportunities. Our goal is to provide a space for youth transformation, experiences and memories that change the way young people see and relate to land, food production, and farmers that will ultimately impact their own food choices for a lifetime of good health and environmental consciousness. Over a thousand students, preschoolers, elementary classes, youth groups, and college students visit the farm annually for hands-on learning experiences that engage their bodies, senses, and minds while exploring the farm ecosystem. The Abundant Table s farm-based educational programs allow youth to: Root themselves in land and agriculture through hands-on learning experiences engaging them in soil science, ecosystems, plant parts, food systems, and plant-based nutrition Work in the earth weeding, thinning, and/or harvesting produce Harvest fresh, seasonal vegetables to take home and share with family Eat the fruits of their labor together on the farm, from a simple carrot snack to whole farm-based shared dinners In addition to our extensive farm-based educational offerings, The Abundant Table also supports weekly Farm Church gatherings that take place throughout West Ventura County. Services include a contemplative Taize service, an Out in Our Watershed outdoor service, a family Journey Together service, and a home church liturgy which are all rooted in the Episcopal tradition and include time for biblical/theological reflection, communion and a meal shared in community. Camp Leadership Angela Schultz, Lead ALIVE Camp Staff, Program Director, Community Roots Garden Angela serves as the Community Organizer of The Abundant Table s sister site, Community Roots Garden in Oxnard. In this capacity she is responsible for garden site management and public relations and leading its community garden education programs, distributing harvests to the community, coordinating and growing the Garden s volunteer pool, and managing the garden plot planning and plantings to reflect the food and growing traditions and needs of the predominantly Latino community. She has co-led Abundant Table YMCA farm/community garden summer camps at the garden for the past three summers. Angela is a graduate of Azusa Pacific University. She completed The Abundant Table Episcopal Service Corp Internship program and then continued on as Farm Fellow and campus ministry coordinator at CSUCI. Angela is an active member and leader of Farm Church at The Abundant Table. Angela is

4 also a farm educator with SEE-AG, an agricultural education organization which educates students about the farm origins of their food from field to table while cultivating visceral connections to the surrounding farmland and its contribution to nutritional well-being. Lisa Devine, M.Div. Candidate, ALIVE Camp Chaplain Lisa is finishing a year of service as a seminarian intern at The Abundant Table. During the past year, she has helped to create a new spiritual formation program called Journey Together at The Abundant Table Farm (JT@theAT), a farm-based community for people of all ages from all churches or no church, with an emphasis in supporting youth and their families. Through joyful connection on the farm with land, food, neighbor and God, JT@theAT participants are supported in becoming grateful, compassionate, and justice-oriented humans. Lisa holds a Master of Science Degree in Holistic Nutrition and is currently finishing her Master of Divinity degree at Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, MA. She is passionate about supporting health and vitality from the inside-out: mind, body and soul. Lisa is married with two children, ages 5 and 10, and has also spent nearly twenty years working with children, youth and families. She is thrilled to be able to integrate all of her experience in program development and support at The Abundant Table. Session Availability & Cost Session 1: Alive: Eco-Faith and Farm/Community Garden Camp at Community Roots Garden, 1801 Joilet Pl. Oxnard 7/10-7/14/17, ages Session 2: Alive: Eco-Faith and Farm/Community Garden Camp at Community Roots Garden Joliet Pl. Oxnard- 7/24-7/28/17, ages Cost per camper: $200 per session, $175 early bird registration rate before June 1 st, 2017 Schedule: 9:30am - 2pm, Mon- Fri **Thurs drop off and pick up at Oxnard Farmers Market To register: Please register online here Checks may be sent to The Abundant Table, P.O. Box 6295, Ventura, CA 93006, memo line: Alive: Eco-Faith and Farm Camp Registration, Session I or II. Availability is first come, first served. Enrollment minimum is 10 campers, capped at 15 campers per session.

5 Alive: Eco-Faith and Farm/Garden Camp Schedule Guide 9:30am-2pm Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Theme Soil: Source of Life Seeds: Grow Eco-systems: with Care Each Part Belongs Food Systems: Everyone Has Enough! Restoration: Healing Comes from Being Fully Alive Morning Learning Activity Soil/Compost/Worms Seed Identification Pest Detectives *Oxnard Farmer s Market 9:30-2:00pm* Follow That Strawberry! Week Review Scavenger Hunt 9:45-10:15am Farm Work 10:15-10:50am Creation/Relationshi p Focus Explanation 10:50-12pm Community Story 10:50-12pm Compost Spreading Act out examples of caring for others. God calls us into mutual life-giving relationship with soil. Genesis 2:7, Genesis 2:15 Act out with soil while reading. Weeding/Seedin g Review different seeds adapted for different soils. Jesus teaches us to tend our inner soil. Matthew 13:3-9; Check for understanding with soil/seed review questions. Bug Squash/Beneficial Bingo Make a sculpture showing a time when you were hurt Body of Christ as an eco-system. We are each special and important parts in one body of Christ. 1 Corinthians 12:27, 12:17, 12:21-26 Point to body part as it s read aloud. Oxnard Farmer s Market Farmer s Market Scavenger Hunt Oxnard Farmer s Market Shop Market Lunch planning: to share resources or not to share resources? Share ingredients to make pizza for whole group. Jesus teaches us to share resources and life to better all in our community. Matthew 14:14-21 Read second time and replace fish and loaves with pizza ingredients. Week Review Work Centers Act out noises of pain and hurt. Creation hurts and cries out in pain, too. God call us to live in relationship with creation and be a part of healing creation. Romans 8: First read focus on earth sounds. Read second time and focus on the sounds humans make

6 Milestone 10:50-12pm God calls us to see ourselves as part of the land and be in good relationship with the land, to love her like our family. Just as Farmers prepare soil to grow life, we must tend to our soil so that our seeds of life can grow. God created us to each a special and important part of the body of Christ. Just like we can see in nature, each plant and animal has a unique place, and we are dependent on each other as the body of Christ. Because we are one body, Jesus calls us into relationship right where we are, to share what we have with each other in our families and communities in a way that gives life to all creation. Because many of us haven't treated the earth well in the past, one of our most important jobs is to see how we've hurt the earth and see how we can help the earth, which will help us. We know that, as one body, when we help the earth, we help ourselves. Milestone Activity 10:50-12pm Create collage of working for soil, being in relationship with soil Kids act out what they love to do to take care of themselves; "I'm Nathan and I like to hike." Draw your own healthy and balanced personal ecosystem. (show an example) Make the pizza using farmer s market ingredients. In groups, brainstorm activites of how to help the earth and turn it into a song. Lunch 12-12:20pm Farm Play 12:20-12:45pm Reflection 12:45-1:15pm How does the soil care for you when you care for the soil? How do these things make you feel you feel? Do they help you be your best? How? What kind of seeds did God plant in our hearts? What kind of seeds are you helping to grow in yourself? Do you want to be the seed that grows friendship? How is an ecosystem that we saw on the farm like the example that came from the body? How are those similar? What happens when we take away one part of that from our body of Christ What is one unique gift that you have in the body of Christ? Who knows what abundance means? Did you see abundance at the farmer's market? How was the abundance good for you at the farmer's market? How did you buying food at the farmer's market help the community of farmers? Just like the farmers What would you like to see changed on farms or in our community? We've learned about the ways the earth suffers with different growing practices. What do you think the earth would sound like or would say to us about how she's been hurt? We've seen this week how when we contaminate water

7 Love? What seed are you? are sharing their abundance with us, and we're able to support them, do you think you have gifts that you could share with your community? Are your things that your family could share to create abundance in our community? Are there any ways that you've seen this week that this farm creates abundance? or food, we hurt ourselves because the earth doesn't have what she needs. What could we say to the earth or what could we do to show the earth we care for her and need her? Could this be what Jesus was talking about, how to be our best selves and most alive? A real living example of the Kingdom of God on earth. What are all the ways you felt alive this week? What could do to care for the earth that would help her feel alive, and also help us feel fully alive? Covenant 12:45-1:15pm Harvest 1:15-1:45 How can you care for soil at home? Water the seed and think about what seed you're growing in yourself. See if you can recognize the gifts to the body of Christ that another creature offers. Medicinal herbs for tea and pizza Eucharist on Friday Can you identify different gifts that each member of your family has and shares? Eucharist activityshare medicinal tea and pizza. Every time you eat and drink, remember we are one body with each other and the earth. Closing Prayer 1:45-2pm

8 Alive: Eco-Faith and Farm Camp Daily Schedule Monday Theme Soil: Source of Life Objective: Campers will understand that soil is a source of life and God calls us to be in good relationship with soil and Earth, to love her like our family. 9:45-10:30 Morning Learning Activity: Welcome students to farm camp. Let students know that this whole week they ll explore, work, play, harvest, and grow together during Alive: Eco-Faith and Farm Camp. Share with students that we ll start camp by exploring a very important resource on the farm. Soil Source of Life Lesson (see appendix A) 10:30-11 Morning Farm Work: Invite students to feed life to soil on the farm. Wheelbarrow compost with students to pre-decided rows on the farm. Give each student a cup to fill with compost and spread in row :20 Creation/Relationship Focus Explanation: Ask students to share if they ve done anything caring today. Was spreading compost caring? How? Have they done anything caring for others recently? Break students into small groups and ask them to share how they ve cared for others. Gather students together and ask why they care for friends and family. 11:20-11:30 Community Story: Just like we care for friends and family because we love them and they love and care us, we care for soil because it cares for us by giving us life. Tell students that we re going to read an Old Testament story where God encourages us to care for soil. Ask students to put their hands in the soil and silently act out the story using the soil as you read. Read the verses three times. Genesis 2:7, 2:15 Milestone: This scripture story teaches us that God calls us to see ourselves as part of the land and be in good relationship with the land, to love her like our family. 11:30-12 Milestone Activity: Ask students to make a collage showing examples of caring for soil, serving soil, or being in a good relationship with soil. They can cut pictures from magazines and seed catalogs. Lunch: Farm Play: 12:45-1 Reflection: How does the soil care for you when you care for the soil? 1-1:15 Covenant: Discuss with students all the ways we cared for soil on the farm today. Is there anything we did or saw on the farm that you can do at home? How else can you care for soil at home? Explain to campers that each day of Alive camp we re going take what we ve experienced, learned, and thought and come up with ways to use it to make our lives, our community, and our Earth healthier.

9 We re going to make a promise in our hearts with ourselves and with God to do those actions. In scripture this kind of promise is called a covenant. As part of our Alive covenant today think of one thing you can do to care for soil at home. Make a promise in your heart to share that one thing with your family to care for soil together. 1:15-1:45 Harvest: Now that we ve pledged to care for soil we re going to harvest and enjoy how the soil cares for us! Lead students on harvest of the day. 1:45-2 Closing Prayer: God of soil, help us to remember that we are nourished by the life that grows in soil and that we are meant to love the soil like our family. The love we show for soil, the soil returns to us in her gift of healthy food. Help us to show love for our soil in our yards, schools, and parks. Amen.

10 Alive: Eco-Faith and Farm Camp Daily Schedule Tuesday Theme: Seeds: Grow with Care Objective: Campers will learn how seeds on the farm have adapted to the right growing conditions and grow in fertile soil. Campers will understand that just like farmers tend soil to grow seeds of life, Jesus teaches us to tend our inner soil to grow the seeds God planted in our hearts. 9:45-10:30 Morning Learning Activity: Ask students to look at the field and see if they can estimate how many different crops we re growing. Invite them to take 5 minutes to run around the farm and count the different crops. Bring the students back into whole group. Share with students the number of different crops growing. Ask them how each plant started-as a seed. Share that our most common crops are carrots, lettuce, and beets. Break students into small groups and ask them to observe carrot, lettuce, and beet seeds. Ask them to try to identify each seed variety. Call a volunteer from each group to come and identify. When each seed variety is revealed ask if there s anything special about the beet seed that might help it grow. Students will observe spikes and grooves. Why might that seed need spikes and grooves in nature? Ask them to imagine a windy day. How does the design of the beet seed help it on a windy day? The spikes help it to stay in soil. If the soil is fertile and the seed is watered the seed will grow. Each seed is uniquely designed to survive and grow in the right conditions. 10:30-11 Morning Farm Work: In pre-determined seed beds students will weed to help the seeds/baby plant access more nutrients and water to grow healthy :20 Creation/Relationship Focus Explanation: Bring the students back into whole group. Ask the students to review the different types of seeds they saw. How did the beet seed design help it grow? What do all seeds need to grow? Sun, water, and soil. Review how they tended the soil yesterday. 11:20-11:30 Community Story: Today we re going to read a story in the New Testament where Jesus compares us to soil. He teaches us to grow good soil in our heart so it is fertile to grow the special seeds God planted in our hearts. Ask students what you mean by seeds God planted in our heart. What seeds has God planted in us? Students can give examples of love, kindness, helping, understanding, talents or gifts, etc. Matthew 13:3-9 Review the different scenarios that kept the plants from growing (birds, rocky soil). What kind of soil grew the seeds? The well-tended, cared for soil. Milestone: When we take care of ourselves and tend our inner soil we can grow the special seeds that God planted in our hearts. 11:30-12 Milestone Activity: Ask kids to think of ways they take good care of themselves to help grow fertile soil in their hearts. Give an example, I m Erynn and I like to hike in the mountains to help grow my inner soil. In small groups ask students to act out their self-care. The rest of the group tries to guess their action. In whole group ask campers to think how their self-care activity helps them be the seeds God planted in them. Give an example, I m Erynn and I like to hike in the mountains to help grow my inner soil. Hiking makes me feel happy and peaceful. When I m happy and peaceful I am kinder to others. God planted seeds of kindness in my heart! Ask for volunteers to share their self care activity

11 and seeds. Remind students that all the seeds they shared were the seeds Jesus was talking about in the parable! 12-12:45 Lunch/Farm Play: 12:45-1 Reflection: Review the soil self-care activities campers mentioned before. How does doing those soil self-care activities make you feel? Do they help you be your best? How? What kinds of seeds did God plant in our hearts? What kind of seeds are you helping to grow in yourself? 1-1:15 Covenant: In whole group give each student a planter and some seeds. Ask students to quietly plant their seeds using the compost they tended the day before. As they re planting their seeds they can imagine that the seeds are the seeds God planted in them. As part of our Alive covenant or promise to ourselves, community, and Earth campers will take the seeds home and every time they water the seed they ll think of the self-care activities they love doing that will help them grow the seeds God planted in them. 1:15-1:45 Harvest: Lead students on harvest of the day. 1:45-2 Closing Prayer: Farmer God, we thank you for teaching us about seeds and good soil through Jesus and his stories. Help us to remember our self-care times so that we can be our best and help the seeds of love and friendship that you have planted in us to grow. Amen.

12 Alive: Eco-Faith and Farm Camp Daily Schedule Wednesday Theme: Eco-systems: Each Part Belongs Objective: Students will experience the farm as a living eco-system. There are many living and nonliving things on the farm working as a part of the farm eco-system to keep energy flowing and crops growing. Each part of the system is crucial to keep the eco-system healthy. Campers will also learn that as Christians we are the body of Christ. The body of Christ is like an eco-system. We are each special and crucial parts in one body of Christ. 9:45-10:30 Morning Learning Activity: Ask campers to take ten minutes to silently walk the farm and count all the different life forms they see-plants and animals. Invite group back together and ask campers to share the different forms of life they ve seen on the farm. Show students the owl box and ask what animal lives in the box. Give them hints that it s a beneficial or helpful animal. It eats pests or little animals that eat our crops. The animal is nocturnal and makes a hoo sound. Ask students if the owl box looks natural. No, we put the owl box up to make a habitat or home for the owl on our farm. We invited the owl into our farm ecosystem by making its habitat on our farm. Ask students what an eco-system is. It s a community of living and non-living things creating a system of life. What life are the living and nonliving things in our ecosystem creating? Crops! We try to mimic or copy natural ecosystems on our farm to keep our farm eco-system balanced and healthy to grow crops. Sometime we have too many pests on the farm that eat our crops. Some pests are insects that eat holes in leaves, some pests sit on leaves and suck out the chlorophyll, some nibbles bites in the leaves. Show an example of pest damage-review the damage, how the pest damaged, identify the pest. Today campers are going to be pest detectives. In small groups they re going to analyze leaf damage in the leaf tubs. Examine each leaf and try to decide how the plant is damaged and what kind of insect damaged the plant. Model together. Once the groups have analyzed leaves ask the students what we might want in our farm eco-system to balance or eat these pests. Use the aphid leaves as the example: what bug eats aphids? Ladybugs! Ladybugs, owls, and coyotes are important pest controls in our farm eco-system! How might we invite beneficial animals on our farm to control pests? We already have their food source so we also need to provide their habitat. Show flowers that are beneficial habitat. 10:30-11 Morning Farm Work: Humans are also great pest control on the farm! Our work today is to protect our plants by squishing bugs! Lead kids to a buggy section of the farm and have them squish, stomp, or pull pest damaged plants :20 Creation/Relationship Focus Explanation: In the same way that we saw that plants are eaten by a pest, that plant is damaged. The plants are dependent on beneficial bugs. Can you think of time in your life when you were hurt or damaged? Who or what did you depend on to feel better or be healthy again? Create a little sculpture out of rocks, leaves, sticks, or other things that represent that time. Campers can scavenge materials nearby. Invite campers to share their sculptures and experiences. 11:20-11:30 Community Story: Just like we saw in our farm ecosystem, many plants and animals on the farm keeps this ecosystem healthy. And just like we saw in our lives, we depend on others to bring us back to health. Let's look at how the bible describes how these ecosystems or communities are like a body. Ask students to point to their body part when they hear it in the story. 1 Corinthians 12:27 "Now

13 you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it." 12:17 "If the whole body were an eye, where would the sense of hearing be? If the whole body were an ear where would the sense of smell be?" 12:21-26 "The eye cannot say to the hand, 'I don't need you!' On the contrary those parts of the body that seem to be weaker are just as important...if one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it." Milestone: God created us to each a special and important part of the body of Christ. Just like we can see in nature, each plant and animal has a unique place, and we are dependent on each other as the body of Christ. 11:30-12 Milestone Activity: Invite students to draw their own personal eco-systems. Who or what is in our system? Who do we give energy to? Who gives energy to us? Is our eco-system balanced and healthy? Show an example of your pre-drawn personal eco-system :45 Lunch/Farm Play: 12:45-1 Reflection: How is the ecosystem that we saw on the farm like the example that came from the body? How are those similar? What happens when we take away one part from our body of Christ? What would happen if we removed one part of our farm eco-system? What is one unique gift that you contribute to the body of Christ? 1-1:15 Covenant: As part of our Alive covenant or promise to ourselves, community, and Earth see if you can recognize the gifts that another creature offers to the boy of Christ. How are they a special part of the body of Christ? Share your observation with a family member. 1:15-1:45 Harvest: We re going to harvest special plants on the farm that also help control pests. Herbs! Herbs also contain medicine that humans have been using for thousands of years to treat sickness. Read, Los Remedios de mi Nana/My Nana s Remedies to the group. Ask campers if they ve had tea before? What kind? How was it made? Show an open tea bag filled with dried crushed herbs. Ask kids if they remember the herbal remedy Nana made when the little girl had a stomachache Mint! Share that we re going to harvest mint bundles to use for our Friday tea party. Show how to harvest and bundle mint. Campers will harvest and bundle 10 mint bunches. One will be used for tea part and the rest can be shared with friends and family. 1:45-2 Closing Prayer: God, creator of interdependent relationships, please give us the eyes to see and the ears to listen to all the ways that your creation weaves together a body of Christ that keeps us healthy, care for, nurtured, and loved.

14 Alive: Eco-Faith and Farm Camp Daily Schedule Thursday Theme: Healthy Local Food Systems: Everyone Has Enough! Objective: Students will learn that truly healthy local food systems are made of local farmers and consumers who share resources, skills, and life to try to ensure there is enough healthy food for all and all are cared for. Just like healthy local food systems Jesus teaches us to share resources and life to better all in our community. *Meet at Oxnard Farmer s Market at 9:30am Pick up at 2:00pm* 9:30-10:00 Morning Learning Activity: Meet students at The Oxnard Farmer s Market. Ask students to raise their hand if they ve shopped at a farmer s market before. What do they like about farmer s markets? Reminds campers that yesterday we explored the farm eco-system-a system made of many different living and non-living things to grow healthy food. Today we re going to explore another kind of system-a food system. A food system is all the different parts that get food from the farm to our tables. We re going to explore two different food systems. First we re going to explore our global food system. Our top crop in Ventura County goes all around the world. Anyone know what our number one top crop is? Strawberries. Use global food system cards to trace the food chain. Then do the same when strawberries or other crops from local farms stay in our local food system. Which food system uses less fossil fuels? Which food system has the freshest food? 10:00-11:00 Farmer s Market: Share with students that now we re going to explore the farmer s market. Give each student a farmer s market investigation document. Break into small groups (use 2 adult volunteers-each group needs an adult) and walk around finding answers to the scavenger hunt. Focus on how many different farms and growers are gathered together. Do campers think the diversity of farm at the market is a good thing? Why? Now that we ve explored the farmer s market we re going to be farmer s market customers and buy local produce and goods to support our local farmers. Campers shop in small groups. Campers can only buy ONE non whole plant items Lunch/games 12-12:45 Creation/Relationship Focus Explanation: We just saw the benefits of eating locally and now we're going to read a story where a big community was able to take care of each other, right where they are. Before we read the story, let's do some lunch planning for our big Friday Feast tomorrow. We're all going to eat together tomorrow, but each of us is going to get our own ingredient for our lunch tomorrow. (pass out pizza ingredients-crust, sauce, tomatoes, basil, and veggies from farmer s market) So we have some options in eating together tomorrow. We could just eat our own ingredient for lunch or we can share our lunch resources and create a shared menu. What are some things we could make together if we shared ingredients? How would lunch taste if we didn't share our ingredients? (ask basil kid) How would lunch taste if we made a pizza? 12:45-1 Community Story: So now that we agree that we want to share our ingredients and make a pizza for tomorrow, we're going to read a story in the New Testament about people who were afraid that they wouldn t have enough food, but when they shared, everyone had enough. Read Matthew 14: When Jesus landed and saw a large crowd, he had compassion on them and healed their sick.

15 15 As evening approached, the disciples came to him and said, This is a remote place, and it s already getting late. Send the crowds away, so they can go to the villages and buy themselves some food. 16 Jesus replied, They do not need to go away. You give them something to eat. 17 We have here only five loaves of bread and two fish, they answered. 18 Bring them here to me, he said. 19 And he directed the people to sit down on the grass. Taking the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven, he gave thanks and broke the loaves. Then he gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the people. 20 They all ate and were satisfied, and the disciples picked up twelve basketfuls of broken pieces that were left over. 21 The number of those who ate was about five thousand men, besides women and children. Read it again and substitute pizza crust for loaves and tomato sauce and cheese for fish. Ask the campers what they think happened with the fishes and loaves or pizza crust, sauce, and cheese. What did the people do with what they got? How was there enough? Milestone: Because we are one body, Jesus calls us into relationship right where we are, to share what we have with each other in our families and communities in a way that gives life to all creation. 1-1:30 Games 1:30-2 Milestone Activity: Make muffins for farm party tomorrow 2 Covenant/Closing Prayer: Provider God, thank you for giving us rich soil, water, sun, and seeds to grow so much healthy food. Thank you for all the human hands that work to make plants and animals grow healthy Give us sharing hearts to make sure that we share with those who are hungry.

16 Alive: Eco-Faith and Farm Camp Daily Schedule Friday Theme Restoration: Healing Comes from Being Fully Alive Objective: Students will understand ways that some agricultural practices hurt creation. They will connect contamination with earth suffering. Students will understand that as Christians we are called to restore our Earth and restore the suffering we have caused. 9:45-10:30 Morning Learning Activity: Since today is our last day of Alive camp we re going to remember all the things we did and learned this past week! But instead of remembering through talking we re going to remember by doing a scavenger hunt (appendix D). In groups we ll follow clues around the farm. Each clue will help us remember something we did or learned and will guide us to the next clue! Read and follow each clue carefully. The first group to finish and answer all clues CORRECTLY will be first in line for our Friday Feast! Once groups have finished scavenger hunt review clues as a whole group. 10:30-11 Morning Farm Work: Now that we remembered all the incredible things we ve done and learned this past week we re going to review all the work we ve done! In groups we ll rotate through work centers. Here are the centers: compost spreading, weeding, bug squashing. Each group will spend 10 minutes in each center. When you hear the ka kaa rotate to your next center. Review rotation order. Have students repeat back to you the directions :20 Creation/Relationship Focus Explanation: Share with students that we re going to talk about something hard today. We re going to talk about pain and suffering. Can they remember a time when they were in pain or were suffering. Ask them to silently remember a time. Then ask think of noises they made when they were in pain. Ask them to make those noises out loud. Give an example. Make suffering noises aloud together as a group. Remind students of some of the ways we learned that creation suffers this week-chemicals in the watershed causes suffering to life. Synthetic pesticides cause suffering to creatures. Creation hurts and cries out in pain, too. But we can be a part of bringing healing to creation. God wants us to bring healing to creation. 11:20-11:30 Community Story: We re going to read a story today where God reminds us that we are part of Earth and when Earth suffers so do we. But we can be a part of healing her. When we heal Earth we also heal ourselves. Read Romans 8: Read a second time and ask students to focus on the sounds the Earth makes in the story. Read a third time and ask students to focus on the sounds human make. Milestone: Humans haven't treated the earth well in the past. One of our most important jobs is to see how we've hurt the earth and see how we can help the earth, which will help us. We know that, as one body, when we help the earth, we help ourselves.

17 11:30-12 Milestone Activity: In groups brainstorm ways we can help the Earth. Since this is our first ALIVE camp we don t have a camp theme song. We want you all to create our camp theme song. In groups take all the ways we can help the Earth and turn them into an ALIVE camp theme song. Have each group perform their song :45 Lunch/Farm Play: 12:45-1 Reflection: What would you like to see changed on farms or in our community? We've learned about the ways the earth suffers with different growing practices. What do you think the earth would sound like or would say to us about how she's been hurt? We've seen this week how when we contaminate water or food, we hurt ourselves because the earth doesn't have what she needs. What could we say to the earth or what could we do to show the earth we care for her and need her? Could this be what Jesus was talking about, how to be our best selves and most alive? A real living example of the Kingdom of God on earth. What are all the ways you felt alive this week? What could we do to care for the earth that would help her feel alive, and also help us feel fully alive? 1-1:15 Covenant: Carrot muffin and medicinal tea party! 1:15-1:45 Harvest: 1:45-2 Closing Prayer: Camper Led